Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... consists of one independent prop- osition . It contains only one subject and one predicate ; but an indefinite number of words and phrases may be brought into the sentence , and grouped about the subject and the predicate as modifiers ...
... consists of one independent prop- osition . It contains only one subject and one predicate ; but an indefinite number of words and phrases may be brought into the sentence , and grouped about the subject and the predicate as modifiers ...
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... consists of sub- ject and predicate , without adjuncts . The first of the fol- lowing sentences is in its simplest form . Observe how the subject and the predicate are enlarged , in the three sen- tences following , by the gradual ...
... consists of sub- ject and predicate , without adjuncts . The first of the fol- lowing sentences is in its simplest form . Observe how the subject and the predicate are enlarged , in the three sen- tences following , by the gradual ...
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... consist of the name of a person or thing spoken of in exclamatory phrases ; as , " O their dreadful end ! " or of a noun with a limiting adjective or participle ; as , " The storm having ceased , we departed " ; or of the name of the ...
... consist of the name of a person or thing spoken of in exclamatory phrases ; as , " O their dreadful end ! " or of a noun with a limiting adjective or participle ; as , " The storm having ceased , we departed " ; or of the name of the ...
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... consist of an indefinite number of words and phrases , a variety of changes in the arrange- ment of its parts may be made . Thus the sentence , " On a pleasant spring morning , with my little curious friend beside me , I stood on the ...
... consist of an indefinite number of words and phrases , a variety of changes in the arrange- ment of its parts may be made . Thus the sentence , " On a pleasant spring morning , with my little curious friend beside me , I stood on the ...
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... consists of one independent , or principal , proposition , and one or more subordinate propo- sitions , or clauses . Every clause contains a subject and a predicate , and every proposition contains a subject and a predicate , hence ...
... consists of one independent , or principal , proposition , and one or more subordinate propo- sitions , or clauses . Every clause contains a subject and a predicate , and every proposition contains a subject and a predicate , hence ...
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accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected dependent clause DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet figure flowers following sentences give hand hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic pentameter idea Inchcape Inchcape Rock kind King language light live look Lord meaning metaphor Metonymy mind modifies nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme Richard Penderell RULE sail Saxon sense simile simple sentence snow sometimes soul sound speak speech statement stood style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees Trimeter trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer